The unity of content and form in philosophical writing : the perils of conformity /
Stewart, Jon(Jon Bartley)
Actually published by Bloomsbury Academic.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. The model of the natural sciences -- II. The rise of the professionalization of philosophy -- III. Ayer's and Carnap's views of meaning -- IV. The resulting conformism -- V. The unity of content and form in philosophical writing -- 1. The Platonic Dialogue and the Sophists -- I. Plato and pre-Socratic philosophy -- II. Socrates and the Sophists -- III. Socrates and the form of teaching of the Sophists -- IV. Socratic ignorance -- V. Socratic irony -- VI. Innate knowing and recollection -- VII. The maieutic method -- VIII. Aporia -- 2. Paradox and Oxymoron in Seneca's Epistulae Morales -- I. Seneca and traditional Roman values -- II. Seneca's inversion of Roman values and criticism of contemporary philosophy -- III. Seneca's use of paradox and oxymoron -- 3. Satire as Philosophy: Erasmus' Praise of Folly -- I. The scholastic quaestio -- II. The theology of Folly -- III. Folly's criticism of scholasticism -- IV. Erasmus' critical strategy -- 4. The Enlightenment and Religion: Hume's Dialogues -- I. Hume's trepidation -- II. Hume's first attempt at dialogue in the Enquiry -- III. Hume's reflections on genre -- IV. Hume's portrayal of the interlocutors -- V. Hume's portrayal of the discussion -- VI. Hume's portrayal of the conclusion -- 5. Philosophy and Drama: Lessing's Nathan the Wise -- I. Lessing and the publication of the Wolfenbuttel fragments -- II. Lessing's defence of the Wolfenbuttel fragments -- III. Lessing's plan for a shift in genre -- IV. Nathan the Wise as a continuation of the debate surrounding the fragments -- 6. Kierkegaard's Use of Genre in the Struggle with German Philosophy -- I. Writing in German idealism -- II. Kierkegaard's objection with respect to content -- III. Kierkegaard's attempt to distance himself from systematic philosophy -- IV. Philosophy and life -- 7. Borges' Refutation of Nominalism in "Funes the Memorious": The Short Story as a Philosophical Argument -- I. The doctrine of nominalism -- II. Borges' encounters with Funes -- III. Funes as the incarnation of nominalism -- IV. The reduction ad absurdum of nominalism -- 8. Borges' Refutation of Idealism: A Study of "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" -- I. Forms of idealism -- II. The developmental stages of the story -- III. The idealism of Tlon -- IV. Space and time -- V. The categories -- VI. History in Tlon -- 9. Language, Conceptual Schemes, and Immortality: Borges' Use of the Short Story as a Philosophical reductio ad absurdum in The Aleph -- I. Language and cultural translation in "Averroes' Search" -- II. Averroes' translation problem -- III. Language and cultural incommensurability -- IV. Borges' conception of immortality in "The Immortal" -- V. The visio beatifica and traditional views of immortality -- VI. Borges' alternative version of immortality -- VII. Borges' reduction ad absurdum of the Christian doctrine of immortality -- 10. Sartre and Existential Theater: Bariona and The Flies -- I. The historical background -- II. The production of The Flies -- III. Key philosophical themes in The Flies -- 11. Philosophy, Literature and Rorty: Concluding Reflections -- I. Rorty's account of the professional philosopher and the highbrow -- II. An alternative view of the Anglophone academy -- III. The danger to the curriculum -- IV. The current homogeneity and the perils of conformity.
Philosophy